Posts Tagged ‘nutcase’

For the moment, I’ve taken off the link to this blog from my twitter, and I’m going to be deleting the twitterfeeds as well. I don’t anticipate doing this for long and they’ll be back up in a few days or so, for a couple of reasons which I will explain, but firstly I’ll explain why I’ve done it. I’ve started seeing a wonderful guy called T, and he’s so nice. He cooked me dinner last night, we talk on msn all the time, and we have great coffee sessions. I’ve also stayed over at his place a couple of times and everything seems good so far. I appreciate that all the time that I’ve been whining about being single and various foibles with guys, unrequited attractions etc., I’ve wanted someone solid, stable, interesting and nice, and now I appear to be finding that. So why am I so fucking scared?

I know that part of it is that I don’t want to end up hurting T the way that I hurt Lukas in the past. Although Lukas was way too clingy, and turned out to be a bit of a nutcase, he didn’t deserve to be hurt the way he was – even though it was an honest accident, being dumped by text is not the way that I operate (I think it’s a pretty shitty thing to do) and I will always regret that that was how things went down. T, although we’ve only known each other for a few weeks, appears to be better in every way. So the thought of accidentally hurting T and really upsetting him (I’m confident he likes me a lot) really scares me. I’ve always been the kind of person who feels nervous but manages to override his fear, but I won’t lie and I’ll say that being single is so much easier – you’re not responsible for anyone else’s feelings and you don’t have to worry about what makes them happy or what makes them sad. If I, in some way, hurt T through no fault of his own, I think it would make me feel really awful. So that’s part of my fear.

Thus getting to the reason why I’ve temporarily hidden the link to this blog. If you’ve read some of my entries over the past 4 months, you’ll know that I’ve developed pretty serious feelings for someone. Someone whom I can never have, but who has redefined what it is to be a man, and has shown me what I want to aim for as a man myself. He’s one of my best friends, he’s really important to me, and I’m a total masochist for allowing my feelings to grow to this point. But I know (whether I like it or not) that I can never have him as anything more than a best friend (!!!) and that is enough to treasure. I don’t die inside very often, and when I am dying, I just grin and bear it until I come out the other side. I’m very lucky to have such a friend who’s been more of a role model for me than my father ever was, than any male figure has ever been. If you’ve been reading, you know all of this and more, and I don’t need to recap. But because I’ve been so honest and open about this on here, I don’t want to risk any of T’s feelings being hurt if he reads it – surely he couldn’t help but wonder? Nothing inappropriate’s ever happened, but the fact that the desire is there, and it’s stronger than I care to admit most of the time, makes me feel like it would be something that could hurt his feelings, or at least question my sincerity towards him. And I do like him. Things have gone quite fast, and I think I want to slow down a little bit and just enjoy the moment and be easy with having someone there for me – because I’m scared of rushing myself, I’m scared of rushing our emotions and burning out too quickly, I’m scared of accidentally hurting him but I also want to give myself time to get a grip on my heart. That makes sense, right? I don’t want to mess anything up so early on, but I also don’t want to push things too fast without really knowing what we’re getting into. I deserve a good, stable relationship with a good, stable man, and I’m not going to run away from T – that would be totally counter-productive and I’d be back at square one. But I’m going to take my time – I have to do this for the sanity of my head and the security of my heart.

I guess that’s the crux of the matter. I don’t really know how to just be in a relationship with someone. I definitely overthink things (as Mike has said and as I’m well aware), and I can’t stop my mind and heart running away with me. How do you do that? How do you turn your brain off, dial your emotions down? The longest relationship I’ve had has barely touched two months, and even then I felt somewhat claustrophobic, like I somehow couldn’t let a person get too close to me for fear of getting hurt, for fear of too much responsibility over their emotions and heart, and for fear of showing them all of me only for them to be disgusted, find a host of imperfections, or plain run away. I don’t know why I feel this as it’s totally irrational, and all my close friends know me for who I am and seem to be perfectly happy with it. There’s nothing wrong with me. And yet I’m not confident in believing myself when I say that there’s nothing wrong with me.

And if there’s nothing wrong with me, why am I hiding this blog from him? Over the last 6 months (has it been that long?!??!) of writing, I’ve really enjoyed it, I’ve made a handful of new friends whom I’ve really appreciated, and I have relished the ability to be so honest and frank. Unwittingly, by adding T to my twitter (but how could I refuse? And why should I refuse?) I’ve compromised my ability to be candid, to be frank with him, and with all of you. Shouldn’t he be able to like me for who I am? My heart is who I am, writing this blog has become a part of who I am, and as well as the main concern of not being able to be totally honest with him, it’s gonna affect my hits 😛 (although ironically, since I took this off twitter on Monday, my views have gone up?!?!? where’s the logic?) But I’m not going to delete my posts about Mike, I’m not willing to censor myself and write differently, so I’m not going to change the way I express myself on this blog because I know that some readers appreciate my candour and can relate. Plus it’s cathartic for me. But I really, really don’t want to raise questions in T’s mind about my affection for Mike nor about my sincerity towards him. I want to see where this relationship leads, I deserve a nice boyfriend (and so does he!) and I want to enjoy spending time with him (albeit relaxing a little bit now after our quite intense, fast beginnings). I just hope that eventually, he will understand that Mike will always be in my heart, but nothing can ever happen and if things go right in the future, I could hold him in my heart too. And that’s the best way I can express myself and it still doesn’t quite express my feelings how I want to – but hopefully you understand what I mean, because it’s the best I can do. Thankyou for reading, and I hope you understand.